Ohio OVI Grant Money Breakdown

Earlier this week I gave you a breakdown of the OVI grant money received by Ohio in fiscal year 2015 from various federal grant programs. As you will recall the total was a whopping $18,020,292. Of that money, $5,028,774 was received by Ohio in FY 2015 to fight OVI. This post will focus on the Section 405(d) grants that are specifically targeting impaired drivers.

Under the federal program (SAFETEA-LU), Ohio was eligible for this grant in one of two ways:

Why do I oppose OVI checkpoints?
Watch the video to learn why Charles Rowland opposes OVI Checkpoints. I oppose OVI checkpoints because they are wrong! When I was a kid growing up in the Miami Valley, we believed that what separated us from the evil Soviet Union was our freedom. It was a Cold-War trope that in America you need not fear officers of the state stopping you for no reason to ask for your papers. Americans travel freely! It was at the end of the Cold-War that America began its decades long War on Drugs. The War on Drugs fundamentally changed...